Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Achievement Guide & Road Map

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Achievement Guide

Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10 [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 0
- Online: 51 [1000]
- Approximate amount of time to 1000

: 40+ hours [Estimated Time to 100%]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 [story-related achievements can be unlocked with chapter select]
- Missable achievements: None [thanks to chapter select]
- Does difficulty affect achievements: Yes [some of the achievements are dependent on Mastery Levels]
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None

Introduction:
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is here. Whether you are excited for this game or you greet its arrival with a sigh, it is upon us. Rocksteady has leapt into the looter-shooter template and given us a game that is quite a lot better than you may presume. Metropolis is a treat, the combat is crunchy and satisfying, and the story – for a game in this multiplayer genre – is enough to pull you through the adventure. The Justice League has gone bad, and you, playing as each of the four members of the Suicide Squad – or Task Force X, as they’re called in-game – must put a stop to it.

It’s a fairly hefty achievement list, not all that difficult, but it takes some time, tied as it is to post-game missions and grinding. Plus, we also have the return of the Riddler trophies from the Arkham games, which give you a number of collectibles to spend time hunting down. A medium to fairly simply-and-easy 1000

, all things told. Let’s jump in!

Step 1 – Play through the main campaign
This may sound obvious, but the campaign of Suicide Squad, played either online with others or on your own with bots, will unlock you a load of achievements right off the bat. Achievements such as Hitting The Fan (10G), Cleaning Out the Closet (10G), Fowl Play (15G), and so forth are all tied to finishing the chapters of the story. They are unmissable, basically, and you will also find that you’ll have picked up loads of others on the way, without really trying. It only takes about eight to ten hours to finish, too.

You can also, as part of your play through the campaign, grab achievements such as Level Up (10G), The Chosen One (25G), Choices (10G) by going slightly out of your way. The latter you can unlock by paying a quick visit to Penguin and overhauling one of your weapons, and the former only tasks you with reaching level 10 with any of the four characters.

Step 2 – Hunting Collectibles and Support Squad Missions
After you have finished the main campaign, you can then focus on finishing the Support Squad Missions, which you have to do to unlock the Winged Vengeance (20G), War Machine (20G), Welcome to the Jungle! (20G), Managing People (20G), Your World is Mine! (20G), Shock Treatment (20G), and Combine and Conquer (20G) achievements. Plus, in this part of the playthrough you can focus on going after the Riddler trophies, which is one of the more fun things to do, in that it’s a nice change of pace – just scooting around and scanning the environment. That way, you will unlock the The Right Question (10G), The Real Deal (20G), Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (10G), and The Oldest One in the Book! (20G) achievements.

You can also complete the Riddler’s AR challenges during this part of your playthrough. These are less interesting than the actual riddles, tasking you with completing combat gauntlets and fulfilling certain timed traversal challenges. You will unlock Turn and Turn Again (10G), Blaze of Glory (20G), and Their Dark Designs (15G) by doing these.

Step 3 – Grinding, Mastery Levels, and XP Amassing
This is probably the least fun part of achievement hunting in Suicide Squad. Incursion Missions require that you obtain Promethium – it requires 1000 Prometheum to play each Incursion Mission – and you amass Prometheum by killing folks out in Metropolis. You get more Prometheum if you switch the difficulty to high. Doing the Incursion Missions willl unlock you the Act of War (20G), Killin’ Time (15G), and Battle Lines (10G) achievements.

Mastery levels are attained by completed these Incursion Missions on higher difficulties (see Battle Lines (10G)), so you will need to do this in order to unlock the The Final Frontier (60G), Killin’ Time (15G), and Into the Angry Planet (20G) achievements. You will need to replay missions on the highest difficulties, and eventually you will reach Mastery Level 20. When you replay this mission at Mastery Level 20 you will start to unlock the Infamy Tier 3 Gear. You need to get the Infamy Tier gear in order to unlock the The Venom Connection (15G), Abandon All Hope (50G), and The Reaper (25G) achievements.

It’s important to note that, once you reach level 30 with one hero, you will start contributing to the overall squad level. You can replay highest-difficulty Incursion Missions and also you can use the chapter select to go and replay story missions on the highest difficulty. Eventually, you will get your overall squad level to 50, and you will unlock the Trial by Blood (30G) achievement. At this point, you should close in on that 1000

. Happy hunting!

Conclusion:
Not nearly as irredeemable as you might think, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League actually has a lot of nice ideas and some nice, crunchy shooter mechanics. The endgame might fail to hold your attention, but the story is quite a ride while it lasts.

[XBA would like to thank Josh Wise for this Roadmap]

Cleaning Out the Closet

10
Steal something useful from the Hall of Justice
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 1, as the team breaks their way into the Hall of Justice. In order to unlock it, you just need to shoot the display case with any character, and then a cutscene will begin. You’ll swipe some super-powered doohickeys, and, once the cutscene is over, this achievement will unlock.
Fowl Play

15
Recruit your first Support Squad member
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 2, when you are tasked with tracking down Penguin in his little warehouse. You have to battle a load of enemies, and a cutscene will play out wherein Penguin is forcibly recruited to the cause, and then this achievement will unlock.
Death Blooms

15
Recruit your second Support Squad member
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 3, when you actually find Ivy, who is hanging out – rather predictably, it must be said – in a giant plant. A story cutscene will play, and you will meet the new pint-sized plantlet, and then this achievement will unlock.
Blitzkrieg Bop

10
Destroy the Behemoth
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 3, in the mission entitled That's Not Cannon. Funnily enough, you have to battle a large cannon. See what they did there? Once you have destroyed the cannon, this achievement will unlock.
Thunderstruck!

30
Kill The Fastest Man Alive
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 3, for completing the mission Flash Must Die. In it, you have to defeat The Flash, which isn’t really very difficult at all. You have to keep your sights on him, which is sometimes the toughest thing in the fight, and you have to wait until he stops running around and stands in his Speed Force bubble. When he does, aim at him and wait for the counter symbol to pop up. If you hold and press , you will pull off a pre-emptive counter. This will make him vulnerable to more shooting.

It’s best to play as Boomerang for this mission, because he’s psyched up to kill The Flash, and this will net you more XP and resources. Use Boomerang’s Speed Force traversal to zip around and avoid The Flash’s various projectiles, keep countering him and dealing consistent bullet damage, and he will go down without too much trouble. When he does, this achievement will unlock.
Blackest Night

30
Kill The Green Lantern
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 4, in the mission Kill Green Lantern. You will be unsurprised to learn that the mission entails the killing of Green Lantern. This boss fight isn’t very difficult at all; none of them are, really. You ened to focus on shooting Lantern’s glowy green holograms first. They will turn yellow and then burst into shards. Once you have done this, Lantern will then be vulnerable to your fire.

There are green holographic choppers that fly through the air and shoot at you, and you have to counter these, by holding and pressing . After you have done this, the shield around Green Lantern will dissipate, leaving him open to fire. Keep up a steady stream of damage, and you will down him before too long. This achievement will then unlock.
Endgame

30
Kill The World's Greatest Detective
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 4, after the mission Grab Batman. The boss fight here culminates in you having to fight a giant, demonic version of Batman. All you need to do is leap over the lasers that he swings from left to right and shoot the giant flying bats as they zoom toward you. In between avoiding all this damage, you merely shoot the giant bat demon in the face. It isn’t very glamorous, frankly. When you’ve whittled his health down to zero, this achievement will unlock.
Abandon All Hope

50
Kill The Man of Steel
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 5, in the mission called Kill Superman. Superman himself probably is the toughest of the boss fights in the game, but that still doesn’t make him all that tough. He has a variety of attacks, and I found the easiest way to defeat him was to stay airborne. For this reason, Deadshot is the way to go for this one. Superman uses his ice breath to create ouchy spikes all over the places, and he also causes billowy waves of ouchy green gas to spread outward.

The best way to defeat him is to use Deadshot’s jetpack to get in the air, and then hold . Deadshot has this mechanic that allows you to hover on the spot while aiming for long periods of time without burning up all your fuel. Uses this to aim at Superman and wait for the counter symbol to flash up. Counter him, and you will open him up to taking tonnes of regular bullet damage. Well, not exactly regular – your bullets are coated in Gold Kryptonite, after all. He will recharge his health three times, but that doesn’t make this fight any more difficult; it just makes it longer. Once Superman is down, this achievement will unlock.
Act of War

20
Complete your first Incursion Mission
Incursion Missions unlock toward the end of the game, and they involve you hopping into one of the various alternate dimension – or Elseworlds, as they are called – and carrying out objectives. These are endgame content, basically, and in order to take part in an Incursion Mission you will need to gather a resource called Promethium. Each Incursion Mission requires 1000 Promethium as an entry criteria. If you want to gather Promethium, you’ll need to complete various side activities.

You can kill Red Cargonauts, you can open caches after destroying carrier drones, you can complete Support Squad missions, and you can do the Killing Time mission – effectively a kind of horde mode. Once you have enough Promethium, head to one of the Incursion Missions, which are marked on your map, and finish it. This achievement will then unlock.
No One Defeats Brainiac!

50
Kill The Collector of Worlds
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 6 – funnily enough, in the mission entitled “Kill Braniac.” This boss is kind of a mish-mash of the previous ones, in that Braniac takes on the form of The Flash and zips around the arena, and at one point he summons a cyclone, as Superman did when you fought him. Keep your distance, look out for chances to counter Braniac, deal steady damage with your guns – you know the drill.

At one stage in the fight, Gizmo will send in one of his flying cars, which is great for raining down death from above, especially because is soon littered with goons to kill. After you have whittled him down, a cutscene will play out, and this achievement will unlock.
Battle Lines

10
Complete an Incursion Mission at Mastery level 5
Mastery levels are attained by completing Incursion Missions on higher difficulties. (See Act of War (20G)) If you keep completing Incursion Missions on higher and higher difficulties, you will unlock Mastery levels, and these give you the chance to score much better loot. The eternal cycle continues!

To unlock this achievement, you will need to make it to Mastery level 5 and finish an Incursion Mission. Not only will you get a chance to unlock better loot, but you can also receive very powerful Master items, and this achievement will then unlock.
Killin' Time

15
Complete an Incursion Mission at Mastery level 10
See Battle Lines (10G).
The Final Frontier

60
Complete an Incursion Mission at Mastery level 20
See Battle Lines (10G).
Winged Vengeance

20
Complete the final Penguin Support Squad Mission
This one is easy, indeed. Check your map () and then press . This brings up a list of your Support Squad missions, displaying your progress in completing them, and where you need to go on the map to complete the next one.

Support Squads come in various forms, and are all to do with characters that support your Suicide Squad along the way. These include (and there is an achievement for completing each of the final mission in each):
- Gizmo
- Poison Ivy
- Rick Flag
- Lex Luthor
- Hack
- Toyman
Support Squad missions will unlock as you progress through the game, and are indicated on the map as their own individual icons.

Get to the mission marker on the map, finish the objectives, and work your way through to the fourth and final Penguin mission, and this achievement will then unlock. Do the same for all the other Support Squads too, to get all the other Support Squads achievements.

You can use this method to keep track of any and all Support Squad missions that you have outstanding, until you have finished them all.
War Machine

20
Complete the final Gizmo Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Managing People

20
Complete the final Rick Flag Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Shock Treatment

20
Complete the final Hack Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Combine and Conquer

20
Complete the final Toyman Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Turn and Turn Again

10
Achieve 13 Stars in Riddler AR Challenges
The Riddler AR Challenges give you different objectives, some of them combat-based, others to do with traversal – racing through checkpoints on a timer, for example. While you’re out exploring Metropolis, check your map () and look for the question mark icons that have the little three stars below them.

When you travel to them, you’ll find a big question mark on the ground and you’ll have the option to begin that particular challenge. Once you have finished it, see how many stars you earned, and, if you only earned one or two stars, retry the mission and go for all three. Complete as many Riddler AR Challenges as you need to accrue to unlock this achievement – either maxing out every challenge or by picking up one or two stars on a whole bunch.
Their Dark Designs

15
Achieve 26 Stars in Riddler AR Challenges
See Turn and Turn Again (10G).
Blaze of Glory

20
Achieve 39 Stars in Riddler AR Challenges
See Turn and Turn Again (10G).
The Right Question

10
Solve 5 of Riddler's Riddles
Check out our Suicide Squad All Riddler Solutions guide.
The Real Deal

20
Solve 21 of Riddler's Riddles
Check out our Suicide Squad All Riddler Solutions guide.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One

10
Collect 10 Riddler Trophies
The Riddler Trophies are collectibles scattered across Metropolis, and they are not terribly hidden at all. As you explore, during the course of the main campaign, you will periodically see a message that pops up, saying “Riddler Trophy Discovered.” They are discovered passively; you just have to be physically near them.

So, once you’ve triggered the discovery of a Riddler Trophy, you can just pull up your map () and see them there. They are the question mark icons that are sitting on a little square base – like a trophy!

On the map screen, you can also see how many Riddler Trophies there are in each borough, and track how many of them you currently have. Once they are marked on your map, just set a waypoint (hover over the Riddler Trophy and press ) and then make your way there.

You will have many Riddler Trophies marked on the map just by playing through the campaign, so, once you’re in the endgame and are looking around for collectibles, you will have a massive head start here. If you’re concentrating on going after them and you don’t have every Riddler Trophy marked on your map, all you need to do is check the borough you’re in, set a waypoint for an area where there are no Riddler Trophy icons, and go there. More will pop in. Keep this up, and you will unlock them all.
The Oldest One in the Book!

20
Collect 40 Riddler Trophies
See Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (10G).
Level Up

10
Reach Level 10 with any Squad Member
This achievement is basically unavoidable, if you just play through the main story campaign. Even if you switch between characters regularly – which you totally should – you will still reach this level with all of them by the end of the game. And with your preferred character you'll be way over Level 10.
Harleen the Queen

25
Reach Max Level with Harley Quinn
The max level in Suicide Squad is level 30. By the time you finish the campaign, you will probably be over level 20, just by completing the main missions. And, if you have been straying off the beaten path and slugging your way through a number of side missions, then you’ll be even higher. There isn’t all that much variety in mission objectives, as it all boils down to showing up somewhere and shooting some enemies. So this can seem like a bit of a grind at times, but it isn't difficult to do.

Wait until you reach the endgame, focus on your highest level character, and then start going after endgame missions, such as Incursions, and you will hit level 30 easily enough. This isn’t remotely difficult to unlock; it just takes time. Keep at it, and once you hit level 30 this achievement will unlock.
King For A Day

25
Reach Max Level with King Shark
See Harleen the Queen (25G).
Captain Boomerang! Agent of Oz

25
Reach Max Level with Captain Boomerang
See Harleen the Queen (25G).
Lawton's Last Stand

25
Reach Max Level with Deadshot
See Harleen the Queen (25G).
The Chosen One

25
Fully complete the Combat Flair checklist 5 times (Single Player Sessions Only)
When you’re on a mission – either a side mission or one of the main missions – pay attention to the Combat Flair checklist, which apears on the right-hand side of the screen during play:

To unlock this achievement, you need to fulfill all of the criteria in the checklist of that mission, and you need to do that for five separate missions.
Trial by Blood

30
Reach Squad Level 50
In order to unlock this achievement, you need to get your overal squad level to Level 50. Once you've reached Level 30 with one of the characters, any further levelling you do will contribute to your overall squad level. This achievement isn’t particularly difficult to unlock; it just takes a bit of grinding to get there. Check out our guide on How to level up faster in Suicide Squad. That will get you some good early XP, but for the rest of the way to Squad Level 50, you’re best bet is doing the Incursion Mission on high difficulties (see Act of War (20G)). This one is best attempted when you’re in the endgame part of Suicide Squad, though of course your general levelling throughout your main playthrough still counts toward this end goal. Once you have gotten to Squad Level 50, this achievement will unlock.
Choices

10
Get Penguin to overhaul a piece of gear
This achievement is very easy to unlock. Check out our guide on How to re-spec your weapons and gear.
The Venom Connection

15
Equip 3 pieces of the Tier 1 Infamy Set
First of all, see Step 3 in the Roadmap of this guide. Incursion Missions require that you obtain Promethium – it requires 1000 Prometheum to play each Incursion Mission – and you amass Prometheum by killing folks out in Metropolis. You get more Prometheum if you switch the difficulty to high.

Mastery levels are attained by completed these Incursion Missions on higher difficulties, and as you climb through the levels, you will start to unlock different tiers of Infamy gear. To unlock this achievement, you will need to obtain 3 pieces of the Tier 1 Infamy Set. Then, head to the Loadout menu ( and then to tab across to it), and equip the gear. This achievement will then unlock.
All Sorts of Fun

20
Equip 3 pieces of the Tier 2 Infamy Set
See The Venom Connection (15G).
The Reaper

25
Equip 3 pieces of the Tier 3 Infamy Set
See The Venom Connection (15G).
Trial By Fire

10
What the hell just happened?
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in the very beginning of the game, just as the titular quartet go up against Braniac’s giant skull and tentacles, a cutscene will trigger saying “7 Days Earlier,” and this achievement will then unlock.
Grand Experiment

10
Get Toyman to Elite a piece of gear
In order to unlock this achievement, you will first have to progress through the story far enough to have met Toyman and have him join your team as a support member. Toyman has the ability to make your gear Elite, but only after you have completed all of his Support Missions. There are five of these (see Winged Vengeance (20G)), and once you have done them all you will be able to go and see Toyman, back at the Hall of Justice, and have him make a piece of your gear Elite. This achievement will then unlock
Allies

15
Complete 50 Support Squad Contracts
The Support Squad Contracts are given to you by Hack, and they act like bonus objectives for you to consider while you’re out doing missions. Press  at any time, and you can check on the status of your current Support Squad Contracts.

As you can see in the image above, the “active contracts” window on the left shows you which contracts you currently have active. While on this screen, press  and tab across to the Contracts menu. Once you’re there, you will see this:

On this screen, you can see the list of available contracts, and if you hover over one of them, you can press  to move them up onto your Active Contracts list; then you will be able to try and complete them during play. Also, make sure that you hover over your completed contracts, where it says “collect reward,” and press to claim your bonus rewards. Once you have completed 50 of these, this achievement will unlock.
Number the Dead

25
Defeat 10 Raising Hell Hit Squads
When you finish the main game, you will unlock the Raising Hell system, which gives you little extra objectives to complete in general play. These work in the sam way as the Support Squad Contracts (see Allies (15G)), but, as part of the Raising Hell system, you will also start attracting Raising Hell Hit Squads. Basically, as you complete your Raising Hell objectives, you will notice your Raising Hell tier, well, raising. Hit Squads, comprising tougher enemies, will start to come after you. You need to defeat ten of these squads in order to unlock this achievement. The only hitch is that you can’t be downed in the course of the clash. If you’re downed, the Hit Squad will leave, and you will fail.
Need to Know

25
Complete 100 Support Squad Contracts
See Allies (15G).
History Repeats

10
Begin the Batman Experience
Early on in the main campaign, when you first meet Batman, you will find yourself in a kind of guided tour fun house. Right after your first encouter with him, press the green switch on the nearby wall to begin the Batman Experience – in which Jack Ryder narrates as you walk through the dioramas, filling you in on the Arkham games gone by. This achievement will then unlock.

Hitting The Fan

10
Survive the Batman Experience
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 1, as the team explores the Batman Experience tour. Each of the squad moves through this eerie museum exhibit – which recaps the events of the previous Batman: Arkham games – and then of them is jumped and battered by Batman. Once all four of them have been jumped, a cutscene will trigger and this achievement will be unlocked.
Walled In

10
Escape plan gone wrong
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 3, when the squad are asked to track down Poison Ivy – or technically just Ivy, these days. You have to get to the LexCorp tower, and in the cutscene Harley will uncover a plant-infested lab and surmise that Ivy is, in fact, not dead but reccoperating somewhere. This achievement will then unlock.
Hell and Back

20
Rescue Lex Luthor
Story-related and unmissable.

This achievement unlocks in Chapter 4, in the mission entitled Dead Man’s Heart. You need to make it through the apocalyptic hellscape of Metropolis, in the alternate dimension, and then meet the Earth-2 version of Lex Luthor. A cutscene will play, Lex will introduce himself and become an ally, and this achievement will then unlock.
Into the Angry Planet

20
Complete an Incursion Mission at Mastery level 15
See Battle Lines (10G).
Welcome to the Jungle!

20
Complete the final Poison Ivy Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Your World is Mine!

20
Complete the final Lex Luthor Support Squad Mission
See Winged Vengeance (20G).
Choice of Evils

10
Unlock a Villain Synergy
In order to unlock a Villain Synergy, you will need to grind along until you find a Notorious Villain item, which are coloured pink and tied to a certain DC villain. And you will also need an Infamy Set item, which are the red-coloured bits of gear.

In the image above, for example, you can see that the weapon is tied to Bizarro and is coloured pink – a Notorious Villain item. If you equip your character with a pink item and a red item, then you can form what is called a Villain Synergy. Now, the wrinkle here is that only certain combinations actually create these synergies, I guess because some villains compliment each other and others don’t.

The only Infamy Set that’s available right now is the Bane Infamy Set – more will be added to the game as the seasons progress. The available villain synergies at this time are:
- Bane + Two Face
- Bane + Black Mask
- Bane + Hugo Strange
- Bane + Merlyn
Once you have combined two pieces of gear in one of those configurations, this achievement will unlock.
Forces In Motion

10
Get Poison Ivy to Supercharge the Affliction on a piece of gear
In a similar way to Grand Experiment (10G), you will have to progress through the story far enough to have met Poison Ivy and have her join your team as a support member. When you do, you will then need to complete all four of her Support Missions (see Winged Vengeance (20G)). Once you have done that, you will be able to go back to the Hall of Justice and speak with her, and get her to Supercharge the Affliction on a piece of gear. This achievement will then unlock.